A figure was seen running away after starting the fire that consumed the Nöam restaurant on Decarie overnight. The building owner thinks it was a hate crime.
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Kate
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Kate
CBC looked into the most dangerous intersections for cyclists.
Ian
None of them on Parc!
DeWolf
Not surprising that the Gilford/St-Denis intersection is so problematic. That has been a problem ever since the REV was built. Drivers whip off St-Denis without looking for pedestrians or cyclists. There are also some drivers who make illegal left turns. The city installed a bunch of blue bollards to restrict the turning radius, forcing drivers to slow down. That helped a lot, but still doesn’t solve the underlying issue.
The easiest way to fix the problem is to switch the direction of Gilford so that it runs east, towards St-Denis.
Mark Côté
Heh there’s a mistake in one of the captions: ‘According to SafeMobility, 20 per cent of Montreal’s collisions are considered ‘very hazardous”‘. Pretty sure they meant intersections…
Kate
I expected to see the corner of Berri and Ontario, specifically the southbound side where cyclists come down the hill. Maybe the REV has made it safer – I always flinched from that corner when I was cycling.
Chris
“most dangerous” isn’t really the most accurate summary. It’s “most collisions”. And only in the last 2 years.
And they don’t normalise by either the amount of bike traffic or motor traffic. The “most dangerous” routes could be those that cyclists avoid entirely, and if fewer cyclists, fewer collisions. Hypothetically, if Parc Av only had 2 cyclists ever, but all both died, it wouldn’t make this list, but I’d sure call it most dangerous.
Still an interesting article.
Nicholas
The podcast This Is Montreal covered this, and they specifically say they think Park is low because people don’t cycle on it. And yes, it’s not normalized for the number of cyclists.
su
I am surprised that the decarie/de maisonneuve quagmire did not get a mention
DeWolf
@Kate The REV doesn’t extend below Cherrier so the Berri path is the same as it has always been. Worse, actually, because now Berri is closed for construction and there is a very bad, temporary path along Ontario to serve as a detour.
I see cyclists on Park Avenue but only a tiny fraction of what I see on St-Laurent (another bad street to bike on, but much better than Park). Given how many deaths have taken place there I’d say it’s way more dangerous than anything in the CBC article, if only because you are much more likely to be killed rather than simply injured.
Kate
Thank you, DeWolf.
Ian
@Chris, Nicholas, good points.
I guess this is a good example of how statistical information can be misleading depending on what measures are used and what conclusions are drawn from them.I know back in the day bicyclists avoided streets with bike paths becasue that meant it was a dangerous street, but the planning has improved a lot and now it’s more about managing emergent chokepoints and dangerous modal interactions.
@Mark haha yes, I should hope that is what they intended 😀
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Kate
Radio-Canada looks at other relics from the Olympics – both the Claude‑Robillard complex and the Centre Étienne‑Desmarteaux were constructed for the Games, and remain assets to the city.
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Kate
La Presse looks into who puts up and maintains the croix de chemin seen all over Quebec. Apparently there are 30 in Montreal, 30 in Laval, and – all told – 3000 all over Quebec.
The only specific one I remembered was outside the Ferrari dealership on Jean‑Talon West, but I see from Streetview that it was snapped off sometime between 2022 and 2024.
I had always assumed that these crosses marked a spot where a fatal road accident had occurred, but not all of them do.
Ian 10:52 on 2026-08-02 Permalink
Is antisemiitism or extortion more likely under the rule of Occam’s Razor? I guess it depends who you ask, but of course the owner would never say they are being extorted…
Kate 11:20 on 2026-08-02 Permalink
It would be interesting to know whether the owners of Nöam had previously received any threats, and of what kind.
Ian 15:43 on 2026-08-02 Permalink
Having known business owners that got firebombed they usually deny any kind of extortion. I guess for a restaurant or bar people might be worried that their clients might get scared off if they knew.
qatzelok 19:50 on 2026-08-02 Permalink
When an Italian bakery or eatery gets hit, we all assume “mafia settling of accounts”
and not “hatred of Italians” as a possible cause.
Organized Crime is NOT an Italian exclusive by any means.